{"id":5412,"date":"2023-04-21T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:50:25","slug":"lecontes-sparrow-the-sparrow-with-orange-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/lecontes-sparrow-the-sparrow-with-orange-eyebrows\/","title":{"rendered":"LeConte&#8217;s Sparrow, The Sparrow With Orange Eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2433\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/lecontes-sparrow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2433\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/lecontes-sparrow.jpg\" alt=\"LeConte's Sparrow\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2433\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeConte&#8217;s Sparrow (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We do well with sparrows at Montrose. To date, 24 species have been recorded there, and of these, 20 are regular. One of the more sought after sparrows is LeConte&#8217;s, a rare but regular migrant at Montrose. LeConte&#8217;s Sparrow is normally found in grassy type habitats, but during migration they can show up almost anywhere. We&#8217;ve seen them on bare ground under trees and even on the concrete fishing pier. Migrant birds can&#8217;t always find the right habitat on their journeys and can end up in strange places. The LeConte&#8217;s in the photo spent a few hours in a brush tangle near the pond at the Marovitz Golf Course on April 20, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>April is sparrow month in Chicago. While you&#8217;re sorting through all the Swamp, White-throated, and White-crowneds, don&#8217;t forget about LeConte&#8217;s, the sparrow with orange eyebrows (Nelson&#8217;s Sparrow also has orange eyebrows, but we don&#8217;t see them in April).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do well with sparrows at Montrose. To date, 24 species have been recorded there, and of these, 20 are regular. One of the more sought after sparrows is LeConte&#8217;s, a rare but regular migrant at Montrose. LeConte&#8217;s Sparrow is normally found in grassy type habitats, but during migration they can show up almost anywhere. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[175,121],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-lecontes-sparrow","tag-sparrows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}